page_title: Bob Basset
section_title: History
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context_page_description: Bob Basset is a Ukrainian art studio that works in the field of wearable art. The studio creates art objects from various materials, primarily leather and bone, metal, wood, stone, glass and others. Bob Basset created masks and other products for Givenchy, Panos Yiapanis, RSA Films, members of Slipknot, Korn and Tantric. Bob Basset's masks used in music videos and films of Ridley Scott's RSA Films, Avril Lavigne, Metallica: Through the Never. Publications about Bob Basset appeared in T: The New York Times Style Magazine, WAD magazine, VICE UK, Bizarre Magazine, Playboy, INSIDE artzine magazine, Vogue International, METCHA.
  The studio’s co-founder Serhii Petrov believes that it works in a new genre of “techno-romanticism”, invented by Bob Basset.
context_section_description: Bob Basset studio was founded as a workshop by brothers Serhii and Oleg Petrov in Kharkiv in 1989 and named after their basset hound Bob. The workshop produced leather accessories, souvenir knives and sheaths. The studio began publishing their work in LiveJournal in 2004.
  The first foreign publications about Bob Basset appeared in the British Bizarre Magazine and  in the blog Boing Boing. Canadian sci- fi writer Cory Doctorow, co-founder of the blog BoingBoing became interested in Bob Basset's mask on eBay. Doctorow shared his finding with fans and sci-fi writer William Gibson, who called this mask "Probably the single best steampunk object I've seen".
  2007
  Bob Basset's leather paws shoes appeared in The New York Times Fashion Magazine. Since 2007, the studio's products have been regularly presented at Mercedes-Benz Kiev Fashion Days and the Ukrainian Fashion Week, where Bob Basset cooperated with Ukrainian brands sasha.kanevski and Valery Kovalska and other designers.
  2009
  Four of Bob Basset's masks were purchased for the film Parallel Lines by Ridley Scott's RSA Film company.
  2010
  Vogue International published 12 pages of stylistic fantasies by Panos Yiapanis with masks by Bob Basset. Studio's leather masks became the central element of men's Spring/Summer 2011 collection by Givenchy, shown at the Paris Fashion Week. Later, those masks were used in Givenchy's promotional posters. Zac Baird, the keyboardist, collaborating with Korn, wore a horse mask by Bob Basset on tour.
  2012
  Bob Basset took part in European exhibitions Futur Anterieur (Paris) and The Great Steampunk Exhibition (London).
  2013
  A member of Slipknot Sid Wilson purchased one of Bob Basset's masks and wore it as a part of his show image. Masks can be seen in Slipknot’s “The Devil in I” and “Killpop” music videos. Later Wilson starred in Avril Lavigne's "Rock N Roll" music video, wearing Bob Basset mask as well. Another of Bob Basset's masks appeared in the musical film "Metallica: Through the Never". Bob Basset took part in "Futur anterieur" exhibition in New York and in “Steampunk Art” exhibitions in Seoul and Beijing.
  2014
  Bob Basset's masks were used for the promotional campaign of TNT's "The Last Ship". Bob Basset created Mask of Maidan, which was dedicated to the journalists, who suffered during the confrontation at Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv, Ukraine. The mask was auctioned, and all funds were used to support "Hromadske" public channel. Bob Basset presented "Mashrabiya" collection at Ukrainian Fashion Week. In the same year the mask from this collection has been used in the photo shoot of Elizabeth Banks for Flaunt Magazine. Bob Basset created the mask for motorcycle concept “Sturmvögel”, created by Ukrainian ICM (Iron Custom Motorcycles) company. Bob Basset took part in "Futur anterieur" exhibition in Hong Kong.
  2015
  Bob Basset presented his masks and art-performance "Behind the mask" at Gogolfest. Bob Basset presented "ΣΑΛΩΜΗΣ" collection at Ukrainian Fashion Week. The studio made a mask of "Stalker" for Plarium's “Total Domination” MMO game.
  2016
  Bob Basset produced the second mask for ICM. The mask will be used for the new speed record project “Lake Bonneviile”. Vogue.com included Bob Basset as one of the 9 elements of Ukrainian fashion revolution. Bob Basset's mask was used in Otep's "Generation Doom" music video.
  2017
  In January Bob Basset presents preview of its first solo exhibition "Entity" in "parfum büro" gallery. Later, in March "Entity" was shown in "Bereznitsky Aesthetics" gallery. Items for "Entity" was gathered from private collections all over the world. First collaboration of Italian brand Balossa and Bob Basset was presented at Lviv Fashion Week. In May Bob Basset's artworks was shown in Kharkiv for the first time. Exhibition was part of Museum Night in YermilovCentre.
  2018
  The co-founder of the Bob Basset art studio Sergii Petrov and street artist Gamlet Zinkovsky – are displaying their artworks in Lima, Peru, from February 10 to March 3. The artists arrived in Peru’s capital at the invitation of a local artist Conrad Florez and
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