From the Sixties Manoli works with recycled material.
The sculptor’s art retains the memory of the object and enriches its history by giving it a second life; the objects are transfigured.
The unique eye with which Manoli looked at this poor man's treasure led him sometimes to discover the silhouette of a bird in a ploughshare. At other times he searched for an object with which he could begin to create: nails to make a tree, a bicycle chain to produce a bird or a human figure.
Very often the result of this search was an abstract work of art or a kinetic, mechanical work: for instance, his structures built from umbrella frames and motorised.