Bob Basset
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Serhii Petrov (Ukrainian: Сергій Петров; born 1976, Kharkiv, Ukraine), known professionally as Bob Basset, is a Ukrainian artist and a co-founder of an art studio under the same name.
Serhii Petrov | |
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Сергій Петров | |
Born | 1976 |
Years active | 1989 – present |
Known for | Serhii Petrov is a Ukrainian artist who works on an international level under the pseudonym Bob Basset, and opened a studio under the same name. He works with leather and a number of other materials, creating masks and accessories for fashion brands, photo and video shoots, music videos, movies and other purposes. |
Relatives | Oleg Petrov (brother) |
Website | bobbasset |
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The studio creates wearable art pieces such as masks, bags, clutches, bracelets, cases, and more in the techno-romanticism genre. Artist works primarily with leather, metal, stone, wood, bone, ceramic, and glass. Over the years, leather masks have become his main object of artistic practice, and they have been used in a variety of arenas. Bob Basset items have been exhibited all over the world, often as main attributes at Fashion Week shows and at exhibitions and projects, including the International Museum Day. Collectors from different countries often buy Bob Basset masks for their private collections.
The studio was co-founded in 1989 by Serhii Petrov and his brother, Oleg, in Kharkiv, Ukraine. After Oleg's death in 2011, Serhii Petrov became the face, main artist, and manager of the brand.
In 2016, Bob Basset was included in a list of nine revolutionary Ukrainian designers. The studio's items were highly appraised by the founder of the steampunk style, William Gibson, filmmaker and artist David Lynch, and post-cyberpunk and science fiction author Cory Doctorow. Bob Basset created masks and other items for the Givenchy brand and stylists Panos Yiapanis and Riccardo Tisci. The studio also worked with the Ukrainian brands sasha.kanevski and L'UVE (partnering with the designer Valeria Kovalska). A mask from the Bob Basset collection "Mashrabiya" was used in Hollywood actress Elizabeth Banks' photo shoot. A number of Bob Basset masks were created for a movie produced by Ridley Scott Associates (RSA Films) and Michael Bay, for the movie Metallica: Through the Never, and were used to promote the American TV show The Last Ship. Bob Basset masks were used in a number of music videos for bands and artists. From 2013, Bob Basset creates masks for Sid Wilson from the music band Slipknot; the studio also worked with Metallica, Korn, Avril Lavigne, Otep, Tantric, Zayn, British DJ Jungleboi, Dutch DJ R3hab, Beissoul & Einius, Ghost. Bob Basset created gaming design pieces for the international company Plarium, and a mask for the Iron Custom Motocycles speed record project.
Bob Basset have appeared in the media Vogue International (USA), The New York Times (USA), The New York Times Fashion Magazine (USA), Flaunt (USA), WAD (France), Vice U.K. (UK), Bizarre (UK), INSIDE Artzine (Germany), Trendson magazine (Hong-Kong), Dazed (UK), METCHA, Wired Italia (Italy), and others.
Bob Basset also created personal collections: "Mashrabiya" (2014), "Survivors" (2015), "Calvary" (or "Golgotha") (2016), and "Turnskin" (2019).