"Drifting Objects of Dreams: The Collection of Shuzo Takiguchi" is an exhibition which features the diversity of this famous Japanese artist and a host of collaborators. Though it started in the West, the Surrealist movement was expansive and noone, not even its founder-cum-leader Andre Breton, had a monopoly or license on the transcendental Surrealist spirit.
The art, as well as the many artistic friendships of Takiguchi (1903-79), which are extensively documented by this exhibition, exemplify the creativity that Breton championed. Nationality wasn't a concern: reaching for the unknown and throwing light on the dark recesses of the art world were.
Takiguchi was at first only acknowledged by the cosmopolitan Surrealists. Japanese critics didn't take notice of his scholarly and creative work until he was arrested by the Tokubetsu Koto Keisatsu -- the Japanese police force specializing in "thought crimes" -- for practicing revolutionary artistic activities in 1941. And it wasn't until his famed meeting with Andre Breton in 1958 that his reputation was properly cemented.