The Love Breakfast, hosted by Lia Lapithi, invites couples and others to have breakfast in the exhibition rooms of the

A. G. Leventis Gallery and to become part of a special experiential event. The artist draws inspiration from history 

through the words and images of the books Ancient Cyprus: 9000 Years of Culture by Vassos Karageorghis,

Kypris: The Aphrodite of Cyprus by Jacqueline Karageorghis and The Erotic Life in the Ancient Art of Cyprus by Pavlos Flourentzou.

Το Πρόγευμα της Αφροδίτης, με οικοδέσποινα την Λία Λαπίθη, προσκαλεί ζευγάρια (και όχι μόνο) να προγευματίσουν

στους εκθεσιακούς χώρους της Λεβεντείου Πινακοθήκης και να αποτελέσουν μέρος ενός ξεχωριστού εμπειρικού δρώμενου.

Η εικαστικός αντλεί έμπνευση από την ιστορία, μέσα από τα γραπτά και τις εικόνες των βιβλίων Ancient Cyprus. 9000 Υears of Culture

του Βάσσου Καραγιώργη, Kypris. The Aphrodite of Cyprus της Jacqueline Καραγιώργη και του Erotic Life in Ancient Cyprus

του Παύλου Φλουρέντζου.

Demetra Theodotou Anagnostopoulou

Deputy Director & Head Curator

A. G. Leventis Gallery

LOVE BREAKFAST video installation on set table.

A menu tracing Cyprus ancient history.

WRITING ON PLATE: A very ancient Cyprus cult developed during the late Neolithic period when interest in the manifestation

of sex grew. Stone representations of various sized phalli gradually began to appear, which may have preceded those of

female figures, the earliest of which were stone idols incised with lines indicating a deep vulva, both now combined in a human form.

 A menu tracing Cyprus ancient history.

Cyprus, the oldest paradise on earth, 10,000 BC an epoch of roaming of pigmy hippos, dwarf elephants and peacocks.

.Neolithic 10,000- 3,500 BC

Infusion of phallus and vulva

Erotic tea leafs of Cyprus, coffee.

.Chalcolithic  3,500-2,300 BC

The adoration of the female body

Nest of egg and sensual meat delight

.Bronze Age 2,400-1,000 BC

Passionate urges

 Intercourse of cream wrapped on sweet passionate berries

.Iron Age 1,000-525 BC

Cult of Goddess worship

Elixir Aphrodite’s liquid flirtation

.Hellenic 525-168 BC

Eros and psyche

Bakers soft kisses

.Roman 168 BC-(Byzantine)

“I send you Kypris (Aphrodite of Cyprus) pancakes and gift offerings” 1^stcentury AD

The piece was inspired by archaeologist  Vassos Karageorghis "Ancient Cyprus, 9000 years of culture", which describes the collection in the Nicosia museum and Paulos florentsos "Erotic life in ancient Cyprus", phallus-vulva images above and on the 2 breakfast plates.

Big thank you  Jacqueline Karageorghis, archaeologist , Ellada Papaioannou, professor of French literature and

Dr Niki Katsaouni, poet, Philosophy of Art theorist for their assistance in the making  of the menu.