Cyclus (installation art)

{{Infobox artwork

| image_file =

| image_size = 350px

| title = Cyclus

| artist = Vasko Lipovac

| year = 1995

| type = Installation

| material = painted wood and polyurethane

| height_metric = 2

| width_metric = 2

| length_metric = 44

| metric_unit = m

| imperial_unit = ft

| museum = Atelje Vasko Lipovac, Split

}}

Cyclus is a forty-meter long installation by Croatian artist Vasko Lipovac made for exhibition at Art Pavilion in Zagreb in 1995.{{cite book |last=Gall |first=Zlatko |title=Tour de France in London, Vasko Lipovac Cyclus at Broadgate, City of London, exhibition catalogue | url=http://issuu.com/lipovac/docs/novina8_issuu |publisher=Atelier Vasko Lipovac — Udruga VAL |date=2014 |pages=4–5 |chapter=Cyclus or the Theory of the Weel}} It consists of 66 figures set at one meter high base depicting road bicycle race.{{cite web |author= |title=Cyclus |url=https://vaskolipovac.culturalspot.org/asset-viewer/cyclus/YwFu2mNFR1C6Zw |access-date=April 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303214949/https://vaskolipovac.culturalspot.org/asset-viewer/cyclus/YwFu2mNFR1C6Zw |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |url-status=dead }} Despite the strong stylization of the figures, each cyclist possesses individual features, facial expression and gestures in his preoccupation with the attempt to reach the finish line. The Olympic Museum in Lausanne acquired parts of original installation, “Two motorcyclists” and “Yellow Shirt”, in year 2000 and both have remained on permanent display there ever since.{{cite web |url=https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/asset-viewer/cyclus-two-motorcyclists/XwEyQlmityJEHA?projectId=art-project |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160407103000/https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/asset-viewer/cyclus-two-motorcyclists/XwEyQlmityJEHA?projectId=art-project |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 7, 2016 |title=Cyclus. Two motorcyclists |author= |website=Google Cultural Institute |publisher=The Olympic Museum, Lausanne |access-date=April 9, 2015}}{{cite web |url=https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/asset-viewer/cyclus-yellow-shirt/qQHyczf_MNYk6Q?projectId=art-project |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160413090830/https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/asset-viewer/cyclus-yellow-shirt/qQHyczf_MNYk6Q?projectId=art-project |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 13, 2016 |title=Cyclus. Yellow shirt |author= |website=Google Cultural Institute |publisher=The Olympic Museum, Lausanne |access-date=April 9, 2015}} Cyclus was key inspiration behind wildly successful animated short Cyclists by Veljko Popovic.{{cite web |url=https://www.havc.hr/eng/croatian-film/croatian-film-catalogue/cyclists |title=Cyclists |author= |website=Croatian Audiovisual Centre |access-date=October 5, 2018}}{{cite web |url=http://animafest.hr/en/2018/film/read/cyclists |title=Biciklisti / Cyclists |author= |website=Animafest Zagreb |access-date=October 5, 2018}}{{Citation|title=Cyclists by Veljko Popovic, produced by Prime Render Studios|date=2020-07-21|url=https://vimeo.com/440460140|access-date=2020-08-29}}