A simple room except for it's blinding brightness. Within this white room, on the white wall are two small pictures of a door knob. A simple door knob, it is. What makes the difference is that the door knob is captured with such rigidity, and steel framed with such perfection in a perfect balance. The object escapes its concept as an ordinary object and, oblivious of human existences, seems to be radiating beams from within. I was standing totally stunned, in front of the door knobs, in that white room, motionless.

Takahiro Tanaka's work is hard to describe. It doesn't have a significant theme, nor does it describe itself eloquently. Tanaka observes the minute particles of the indifferent world with his eyes as a refined machine, records it, and makes it a piece of work. As all these are conducted upon strict processes, one can see the 0 degree aura rising up from his works.

On the wall to the left of the door knob is a white photo paper, one can say is a "0-degree photo". There in the center of the photo is a barely visible cut. And on the wall to the right, as if to correspond to the "0 degree photo", yet another two white photo papers. This almost shockingly vivid power could never be conveyed through writing. Neither could it be conveyed through photo books. One has to stand in this white room to really feel and experience it. And this explains that these pieces of work are in the true sense, an orthodox art.

Together with these photos, a series of lithographs of the road are displayed. The same could be said to these photos as I have been explaining above. Creating superb works just by looking into this world with his vivid eyes and recording it, I will declare Takahiro Tanaka is one of the most prominent contemporary artists.