Urbinon kansainvälinen akvarellifestivaali kutsuu Suomessa asuvia taiteilijoita.
Aihe: ,,Sapphires of the Instant,,

Osallistu Suomesta lähettämällä teoksien kuvat (1-3 työtä) osoitteeseen:

suomi.urbino@gmail.com, määräpäivään 15.01.2026 mennessä.

Koko: 30×30 cm, 40×40 cm, or 50×50 cm.

Ohjeet töiden merkitsemiseen ja osallistumiseen:

• Osallistuminen valintaan: maksutonta.
  Kuvan resoluutio 300 DPI – koko 2-5 Mt
  Tiedoston nimeen: Etu ja Sukunimi, maa ja teoksen nimi
  Esim: Irina Rebnitskaya_Suomi_teoksen nimi.jpg
  Kuva taiteilijasta katalogiin 300 Dpi max 2 Mt, nimetty kuten yllä – Irina Rebnitskaya_Suomi.jpg
• Osallistuminen: 75 €, joka kattaa akvarellifestivaaliin osallistumisen ja katalogin. (ei sisällä katalogin toimituskuluja).

Paikka: Urbino, Italia, Rafaelin kotikaupunki.

SAPPHIRES OF THE INSTANT

There are moments in life—brief yet unforgettable—that shine with the force of sudden lightning, fragments of time so intense they seem carved into memory. We might call them sapphires of the instant: rare and precious sparks that, like gems, rise out of the flow of everyday life to mesmerize us, unsettle us, or simply wake us up.

In those moments, everything seems to stop. The rational mind, so accustomed to controlling, categorizing, and planning, steps aside to make room for something else: a vision, an intuition, an image that asserts itself with power, even if we cannot explain it. These sapphires are flashes of consciousness, at times so intense that they shatter our ability to focus, forcing us to confront what we usually ignore: the invisible, the inexplicable, the imaginary.

And yet, it is precisely from this dissonance that beauty can be born. For those flashes carry us elsewhere—beyond the linearity of logic, into a territory where only art, in its many forms, can translate chaos into meaning. The painter, the poet, the musician, the writer: all of them, in the end, chase these sapphires of the instant to grasp them, transform them, and return them to the world as shared emotion.

We should not fear these moments. Even when they disorient or shake us, they offer something precious: they remind us that we are alive, sensitive, capable of wonder and depth. They help us look at the world with new eyes, imagine what does not yet exist, feel what words often fail to express.

The Festival will take place from April 30th to May 17th, 2026, with an intensive program from April 30th to May 3rd, 2026