BERLIN.- With the artistic work of Wolfgang Joop, Galerie Michael Schultz presents an aspect of this creative multi-versatile genius which is still less heard of, as opposed to his world fame as a designer. For more than ten years now, the artist who completed his studies of fine arts at Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig has also been involved with sculptures. His complete body of work stands out due to intuition and the ultimate manual perfection. They achieve this in quite different genres of fine and applied arts, always with the same precision that characterizes his works so distinctly. For Joop’s thinking in terms of gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art) this applies to fashion just as it does for expressing myths, poetry and death. The sculptural and textile works shown here, within their strong material opposites, forge a unit in themselves, at first glance by their weight. Although, the