Man, the major theme in Manoli’s sculpture, a constant throughout his long career, is the first theme that the artist tackles. His graceful, slender shapes are a hymn to the joie de vivre and the dynamic of forms. The lightness of these figures, their upward impulse contradicts the weight of metal and defies gravity. These figures create with their graceful, slender lines a hymn to movement, to the joy of living. It is in his rendering of movement that the sculptor is the most impressive.
There are mobiles, acrobats and dancers, in which the balance of form is completed by that of mass.