giants
in the city
Monumental Inflatable Sculpture Exhibition
Meet our founders
Who we are?
Noor
Blazekovic
Co - Founder / Executive Director
A graduate from the University of Central Venezuela with a B.S. in Communications, Noor Blazekovic served for 10 years as a TV studio and field producer for Venevision TV Channel, Venezuela Latin America. She moved to the United States in 1998 expanding her production skills into the visual arts industry, having worked for Art Basel Miami Beach Show Management from 2002-2006; and in 2006 she founded Irreversible Magazine and Projects, developing an extensive international platform for nontraditional exhibitions and cultural exchanges. In addition, since 2008 Blazekovic is the Executive Director of GIANTS IN THE CITY, a monumental inflatable traveling public art exhibition where she oversees the projects and exhibitions related to the Arts in Public Places Program; confers with artists, and consults with Art Commissions, City and County departments, as well as community groups and developers regarding projects, art events and workshops. As the Magazine Publisher of Irreversible and Chief Editor, she manages the editorial and commercial success of an award-winning contemporary art publication; defining the editorial position and managing business operations to provide readers with high-quality content while maximizing revenue and profit for 10+ years. Blazekovic is a respected art curator and project developer within the South Florida art community and beyond, her projects have taken her worldwide where she has mentored numerous emerging and mid-career artists, helping them to develop their careers and strengthen their work while building a collector base and following.
What we do?
The creation of Giants in the City was born out Alejandro Mendoza desire and necessity to express his work into a giant scale and to give art accessibility to a massive interaction in all sectors within the community.
A Monumental Inflatable Sculpture art exhibition is fascinating to everyone. The Giants are a contemporary visual art experience, a great alternative for any cultural event, giving the community and general public a peculiar collective art show.
Made of Urethane coated Nylon they take, in the hand of the artists, magical powers— a power to insufflate life to fixe forever in our memories, a gaze, a visage… What story do they tell us? To what summits are they attempting to lift us? These giant sculptures are of a troubling and even violent beauty. Their gazes have the power to penetrate our soul and emotionally move us by their strange composition.
Who we are?
Alejandro
Mendoza
Artist Founder
Alejandro Mendoza is the Founder Artist/Curator of Giants in the City.
Born in Havana, Cuba, at an early age his work was included in the permanent collection of Museo Nacional de Bellas Arte and Centro Wifredo Lam. In 19992 after completing his studies, he left Cuba for Mexico where he spent the next 15 years, producing an important body of work that has been shown at prestigious institutions like the acclaimed Museo del Chopo, U.N.A.M, and Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil. Alejandro has lived in Miami since 2005 and founded Giants in the City in 2008. Alejandro says of his work, “Creating is the experience of being constantly unsatisfied. When this happens, I should re-do and lie to myself again.”