FAN Yang-Tsun
FAN Yang-Tsun (b.1970) has lived and worked in seclusion, in his studio located in the midst of a hillside orchard plantation in Hsinchu County, since 2007. Fan moved there after returning to Taiwan from Spain, where he studied modern jewelry design. Fan has a deep interest in traditional practices, including the art of tea, woodworking, bamboo crafting, lacquerwork and instrument making. In 2009, he began to develop and create his own lacquer musical instruments, boldly attempting to dismantle and reorganize traditional structures and materials. The result is a series of lacquer musical instruments that astonish with their unique forms and conceptual breakthroughs: they are at once elegant, delicately crafted and boldly innovative.