Art exhibitions unravel the mystery of Peru

Viewing flashily-attired anthropomorphic animals in Yahuarcani's paintings themed after When Animals were Persons, visitors cannot help but wonder what beautiful myths and spirit could dominate the physical and spiritual universe of the Amazon.

"If I were an animal, how I wish I could look like the fish woman, which is so mesmerizing! I like the wild imagination and romance the painting exudes," a visitor said at the opening of the event Thursday.

"Yahuarcani presents us a concept through his art, which comes from his roots as a native of the Huitoto ethnic group, which lies in the north of the Peruvian Amazon rainforest", said Peruvian ambassador to China Luis Quesada, at the opening of the event on Thursday.

"The indigenous groups inhabiting the Amazon have their own languages and worldviews, different from those of the Andean groups and other regions of South America. In the Peruvian Amazon alone, 45 native languages belonging to 17 linguistic families are spoken," Quesada explained.