News & Archive
Announcements and media coverage from 2021 to 2025.
- Head office relocation (January 2025)20 January 2025Notice
The Sou Akou Art Center announced the relocation of its head office within Tokyo (Minato). The address is not reproduced in this archive.
- Eternal Mount Fuji unveiled with a live performance by Tetsuya Komuro18 December 2023Exhibition
On 27 November 2023 in Saikai, Nagasaki, the ink painting Eternal Mount Fuji (about 3.65 by 9.2 metres, painted over about four months with gold mineral pigment) was unveiled together with Tetsuya Komuro's original music of about thirty minutes.
- Announcement of Japan's largest ink painting, with a talk by Tetsuya Komuro20 July 2023Exhibition
On 20 July 2023 at the Sou Akou Art Center in Ginza, the artist presented the ink painting of about 3.65 by 9.2 metres then in progress in his Nagasaki studio, and talked with the musician Tetsuya Komuro about their creative processes.
- Charity golf: 278,000 yen donated30 March 2022Event
On 30 March 2022 the fees of the 139 participants, 278,000 yen, were donated in full to the Nishinippon Shimbun welfare foundation for children in need.
- Golf Digest on the charity golf tournament9 March 2022Media
The charity golf tournament was reported in an interview article on Minna no Golf Digest.
- Sou Akou Sakura Art charity golf tournament15 February 2022Event
Announcement of the charity golf tournament on 22 March 2022 at Fukuoka Century Golf Club, organised by the Sou Akou Art Center with the support of the Nishinippon Shimbun; the fees were donated to help children in need.
- 30th anniversary exhibition: live stream28 September 2021Exhibition
Live stream from the opening day of the exhibition, 28 September 2021, 10:00 to 15:00.
- Nishinippon Shimbun on the 30th anniversary exhibition28 September 2021Media
The Nishinippon Shimbun introduced the exhibition of about one hundred works and Sou Akou's style, which brings the essence of Japanese painting into traditional Chinese technique.
- Media coverage of the 30th anniversary exhibition28 September 2021Media
The exhibition at Fukuoka Art Museum was covered by RKB Mainichi Broadcasting, the Nishinippon Shimbun, the Asahi Shimbun Kyushu edition, Yahoo! News, Tokyo Art Beat and others.
- 30th anniversary exhibition: outline8 September 2021Exhibition
Dates, venue and opening hours of the academy's 30th anniversary exhibition at Fukuoka Art Museum (28 September to 3 October 2021, Galleries B, C and D, free admission).
- Sou Akou Ink Art Academy: 30th anniversary exhibition7 September 2021Exhibition
From 28 September to 3 October 2021, Fukuoka Art Museum showed about one hundred ink and ink-and-colour paintings, including three new works by Sou Akou, to mark the academy's thirty years. The exhibition had been postponed by one year because of the pandemic.