The intensity of Sense and Existence@Japanese art Artist encyclopedia of the 21st century

Takahiro Tanaka is a prominent artist who has an objective eye and a solid sense towards his work Japanese art world can hardly obtain today. His work varies from paintings to drawings, photograph‚™ to installations. He also utilizes sounds, lights, and even temperatures in his works.

In the "CRITERIUM" series at Art Tower Mito, he showed an almost violent display of materials by tying thousands of fluorescent bulbs and lightening it.
At Gallery alphaM, he presented the remains of the base of Mito installation, scratched tiles, as a "drawing".

He is striving to reveal human "sense", and that could only be possible when he can exhibit his work as a solid presence.

Tanaka's work is a device to assess the observer's sense on how his piece of work stimulated them. This device demolishes our common sense and opens it up vividly to the perception of the real world. It is a fully loaded "work". This artist must become more valued.

Yasushi Kurabayashi (Art critic)