Photo: Courtesy of HANMO Art Center

On June 17, an amazing art exhibition, Rainforest Art Annual Exhibition, is now ongoing at the HANMO Art Center in Beijing's 798 Art Zone.

Not everyone has the opportunity in their life to go to a tropical rainforest. The nearest tropical rainforest to Beijing is located nearly 2,000 kilometers away on China's largest island of Taiwan. Other areas with tropical rainforests in China are in the Hainan, Guangdong and Yunnan provinces. China's rainforests together with the African and South American rainforests are the world's three major rainforests, all near the equator. 

Therefore, the artists have come up with a series of whimsical artistic expressions to represent the rainforest.

Rainforest artist Wang Chao specially designed a circular theme house for the exhibition, allowing visitors to have an immersive experience of the real rainforest.

Other artists launched a series of actions to reshape rainforest plants by taking over Andy Warhol's brain, replacing Matisse's dancing crowd with dancing tree frogs in the rainforest, and letting Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa wear a skirt made of rainforest creatures.

Liu Xin, originally a rock musician, stayed in the jungle for three years, recording a large number of songs from the local indigenous people, as well as recording the sounds of animals, plants and mountains in the rainforest at different times of the day.