Sculpture "Black Friday"

Materials: Hologram-painted Nuceron molded plastic, fiberglass, gold-plated silver
1 /3 + 1 AP
1,2 x 0,5 x h1,6m

Authors:Argo Männik and Oliver Soomets. For sale. 2024

Fashionable, Seasonal, Mother’s Day Special, Christmas Special, Special Release, Special Offer, New Model, Fits Better, Made Just For You, You Don’t Want To Miss It, Best Price, Today Only, Here Only, Want Bigger, Want Newer, Want Too, Want More, do you already have it, you can get it cheap, this line can be continued endlessly.

Final sale, clearance sale, best price, discount price, special price, price rally, crazy days, price bomb, price bang, three for one price, free coffee, win a TV, prices down, prices melting, etc. – one end of “Black Friday”.

The work critical of the consumer society “Black Friday” depicts a gluttonous and trendy monkey metaphorically standing on an ordinary shipment. He has received the courier packages and is ready to eagerly open them when suddenly a deus ex machina – a golden mudfly – falls from the sky on the monkey’s nose. The focus changes. The monkey freezes. There is silence and a vacuum, which forces him to self-examine through a hyper-realistic curved mirror: “We adorn ourselves, but with what?! Mmmh, the whole thing stinks, but the flies are scared away, luckily, and you get used to the accompanying smell, luckily.”

Sculpture series "Another World"

Sculpture series "If we understood the language of trees"

Becoming another.  Materials: apple tree, brass. 1.9m. Author Argo Männik. For sale. 2023

Sculpture series "Cocoons"

Sculpture "Reflection"

Sculpture "Can you make a dog!?"

Sculpture "Wave"

Sculpture series "Half way"

Installation "Illuminated"

Installation "Black hole"

Installation "Bue dot"

The artwork represents, in a modern landscape painting interpretation, a cosmic dot taken from the outer reaches of the solar system – the Kuiper Belt. Astronomer Carl Sagan had Voyager 1 capture a photo of Earth on February 14, 1990, just before leaving the solar system, resulting in a tiny blue “pixel,” a barely noticeable blue dot amidst the vastness of the dark emptiness. The image spread globally in the media with the message: “This is what we look like to Others.” In NASA and the American administration’s words: “That’s here. That’s us. That’s home.”
 It’s a portrait of “Us”. The artist attempts to interpret and closely examine this blurry image from a distance, looking into the blue planet, whose uniqueness lies in the fact that everything around us is happening for real. We are part of this fragility, and we have the opportunity to be part of a tremendous accident that aimlessly moves somewhere and, at the same time, appears as a barely noticeable anonymous point from the edge of the universe.
 The given painting is part of the triological painting series “The Gaze of God".

Sculpture series "Avalon"

Sculpture series “Avalon” North-Estonian Regional Hospital and private collections.
Materjals: clay and copper.
Authors : Argo Männik, Ester Faiman and Lauri Kilusk.

Sculpture "Spark"

Tallinn's Europe School, Gustav Suits has said: "Let's be Estonians, but also become Europeans". 
Stainless steel
Authors: Argo Männik, Taavi Kuningas, Urmet Mihkel.

Sculptural wall "Curtain"

Ugala teather's metal wall . Optical illusion, that invites watchers.
Authors: Argo Männik, Kaiko Kivi, Bruno Lillemets.
Material: Corten steel. Dimensions 37m x 2,8m. 2017

It is in a humans nature, that they prefer landscapes with alternating depth to closed or overly open ones. Both the open field and the dense thicket can potentially be dangerous. The reason for that fenomenon is in evolutionary psychology and thats exactly why we have bushes and trees in our parks – to bring a comforting variety to the view. Art piece “Curtain” offers the same thing, but with a much different material and form.