Location: Jardin Botanico, Medellin, Colombia. Photo credit: Cortesía del artista.įredy Alzate, “Geografias Deshechas”, 2013, 1200 recycled tires, amplified sound, 550 x 550 x 500 cm. Photo credit: Cortesía del artista.įredy Alzate, “Lugares en Fuga II”, 2014, Brick, concrete, metal, 115 x 120 x 120 cm. Location: ARTBO Arte cámara, Bogotá, Colombia. Photo credit: IDEARTES Bogotá.įredy Alzate, “Lugares en fuga”, 2012, Brick, cement, metal, Variable dimensions. Location: Museo de Arquitectura, Leopoldo Rother, Bogotá, Colombia. Photo credit: Maison des arts Georges Pompidou.įredy Alzate, “Quinta Fachada”, 2013, Zinc, metal, epoxy resin, fiberglass, found objects, 230 x 300 x 650 cm. Location: Maison des arts Georges Pompidou, Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, France. Photo credit: Maison des arts Georges Pompidou.įredy Alzate, “Traza”, 2013, Plastic tube: 30 cm (diameter) x 1400 cm, Variable dimensions. Photo credit: Cortesía del artista.įredy Alzate, “Praxis”, 2013, Wood, polyurethane paint, metal, Variable dimensions. Photo credit: Rodrigo Diaz.įredy Alzate, “especies de espacios”, 2006, Series: arquitecturas leves, Tire, wood, metal, 25 x 40 x 55 cm. Photo credit: Carlos Ortega.įredy Alzate, “Adosado”, 2006, Series: Arquitecturas leves, Wood, zinc, Variable dimensions. Photo credit: Rodrigo Diaz.įredy Alzate, “Enclave”, 2006, Series: Arquitecturas leves, Wood, canvas, plastic, Variable dimensions. Location: Centro Urbano, Medellin, Colombia. Sandra Ann Lauer was born in the German town of Saarbrücken, close to the French border.Fredy Alzate, “Esfera pública”, 2015, Epoxy resin, stainless steel, polyurethane, 300 x 500 x 400 cm. Her father, Robert Lauer, who owned a wine store in Saarbrücken, is French and her mother, Karin ( née Eltern), who worked in a shoe store, is German. She also had an older brother, Gaston, a paraplegic who died in 1995. Sandra showed an early interest in music and dancing, starting to learn classical ballet at the age of 5, which she would continue for ten years, and receiving guitar lessons when she was 10 years old. In 1975, at the age of thirteen, Sandra went with her mother to see Young Star Festival, a Saarbrücken talent competition. She was only a member of the audience, but when all participants had finished performing and the jury was discussing the results, Sandra walked onto the stage, persuaded the DJ to put on the German version of a song made famous by Olivia Newton-John and started singing. The impromptu performance gained considerable recognition and led to the release of her first single, which was a children's song about a pet dog, 'Andy mein Freund'. The single, however, performed poorly on charts at that time dominated by disco mania. Sandra won international success in 1985 with a song '(I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalena', which topped the charts in 21 countries worldwide and reached top 10 in further five. Her first album, The Long Play (1985), reached number 12 in her home country of Germany and was a top 10 success in Scandinavia. The follow-up single, 'In the Heat of the Night', continued her international success, reaching number two in Germany and top 10 positions in many European countries. The song also earned Sandra second place at the Tokyo Music Festival in 1986. 'Little Girl' became the third single from the album in 1986, with the music video filmed in Venice, but met with moderate success. Shortly after the release of The Long Play, Sandra moved to London for six months, where she worked with singing instructor Helena Shelen and took drumming lessons to practice her timing.
She also joined a language school, where she worked on her English skills, while she spent weekends in Munich recording new songs. Sandra and Michael married in January 1988 and relocated from Munich to the Spanish island Ibiza to work on what would be Sandra's third studio album. Into a Secret Land moved from electro-pop to more sophisticated areas of pop, what was showcased by the first single, 'Heaven Can Wait', a top 20 European hit.