Takiguchi experimented with Surrealist techniques including automatic drawing and decalcomania from the late 1930s. The latter is a technique in which paint or ink is pressed and transferred between surfaces, producing irregular forms through the interaction of pigment and material rather than conventional drawing. In 1958, he served as commissioner of the Japan Pavilion and as an international juror at the 29th Venice Biennale.
In around 1960, Takiguchi reduced his critical writing and began focusing more extensively on visual art, producing drawings, watercolours and decalcomanias. His first solo exhibition, From My Sketchbook, was held at Tokyo’s Nantenshi Gallery in October 1960, and he continued to experiment with different techniques and forms throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including using the absorbent properties of blotting paper to work with ink and paint and, in some works, combining this with direct drawing.
Works by Takiguchi are held in the collections of the Artizon Museum in Tokyo (which has 163 works and collaborative projects by him); the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; the National Museum of Art, Osaka; the Sezon Museum of Modern Art; and the Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design.
