Bernard Plossu
Untitled [Alberto García-Alix], 1994
Alberto García-Alix
La princesita, 1989; published in El Canto de la Tripulación, El placer de las mujeres [no. 2], n.d. [c. 1990?]
Ceesepe
Original of the covers of El Canto de la Tripulación, El placer de las mujeres, [no. 2], 1989. Mixed media on paper, 71.1 x 101.2 cm
Javier de Juan
Original of the cover El Canto de la Tripulación, Motos [no. 1], signed by the crew, 1988. Paint on paper, 68.5 x 49.8 cm
Javier Esteban
Elena Mar y su hijo, n.d. [1989?]; published in El Canto de la Tripulación, El placer de las mujeres [no. 2], n.d. [1990?]
Chema Madoz
Untitled [Chus Burés ad], n.d. [1997?]; published in El Canto de la Tripulación, Calavera no llora, no. 10, 1997
José Luis Santalla
Picture published in El Canto de la Tripulación, El placer de las mujeres [no. 2], n.d. [c. 1990?]
Carlos García-Alix
Continental Circus, n.d.; published in El Canto de la Tripulación, Motos [no. 1], 1989. Ink on paper, 47.1 x 31.2 cm
El Hortelano
Gorila, 1983; published in El Canto de la Tripulación, No te mueras nunca [no. 3], n.d. [c. 1990?]. Ink on paper, 50 x 35.9 cm
Ángel
Niña jugando a odaliscas, 1988; published in El Canto de la Tripulación, Calavera no llora, no. 10, 1997. Pencil on paper, 24.8 x 17 cm
Luis Pita
Espíritu libertino, n.d. [1989?]; published in El Canto de la Tripulación, No te mueras nunca [no. 3], n.d. [c. 1990?]. Mixed media on paper, 28.5 x 21.5 cm approx.
Valentín Vallhonrat
Picture published in El Canto de la Tripulación, Ramón, no. 7, June 1993
César Lucas
Picture of the back cover of El Canto de la Tripulación, Calavera no llora, no. 10, 1997
Rafael Lobato
Untitled, 1970; published in El Canto de la Tripulación, El que se desangra con la vida recupera otra sangre, no. 9, 1995
Vari Caramés
La muerte une, 1987
Javier de Juan, Chus Burés
Mould, wax model and ring of El Canto de la Tripulación, n.d.
Carlos Bloch
Mahamed Baja, nieto de Jeredin Barbaroja. Comida de galeotes, n.d.; published in El Canto de la Tripulación, Y si no hay viento habrá que remar [no. 4,] 1990
Alberto García Sáenz
Outline published in El Canto de la Tripulación, El placer de las mujeres [no. 2], n.d. [c. 1990?]
Sonia Chang
Illustration published in El Canto de la Tripulación, El placer de las mujeres [no. 2], n.d. [c. 1990?]
José Luis Prieto
El Canto de la Tripulación, 1989. Unique pictures book, 12.6 x 17.7 cm
Alberto García-Alix
Bikers, Madrid: La Tripulación, 1993
Ray Loriga
Días extraños, Madrid: El Europeo & La Tripulación, 1994
Leathers of the Pura Vida team, n.d. [c. 1995?]
2,200 items.
The collection Pura Vida - El Canto de la Tripulación (Pure Life - The Crew’s Song) comprises some two thousand and two hundred items, most of which are related to the publishing initiative that Alberto García-Alix undertook in the late eighties together with a group of friends and collaborators. The first issue of El Canto de la Tripulación «is a collective breath of fresh air that lays down the commitment, conceptuality and heterodoxy that the magazine would come to be defined by (...) What was extraordinary, what was immense, was within it. The outcasts and artists who together endeavored to create a world in its pages were unabashedly irreverent, amusing and somewhat roguish in spirit and did not abide by norms or rules other than the creative and proper ones pertaining to their respective natures. (...) Their radical libertarianism was supported by a mafia-esque concept: they all rowed together» (García-Alix, 2020). Among the crew members, the names Fernando País, Ceesepe, Javier de Juan, Borja Casani, Quico Rivas, Carlos García-Alix, Ana Curra, Antonio Bartrina, Javier Esteban, Luis Pita and José Luis Santalla stand out.
An independent, fringe publication, with print runs of between 1,000 and 2,500 copies, the ten issues that make up the collection El Canto de la Tripulación (1989-1997) can be viewed as a joint venture, as evidenced by the multiple preparatory materials preserved: from originals, mockups, photographs, drawings and texts, to posters, invitations and curtains used for the presentation parties of the issues.
All this is accompanied by original works and unpublished texts, documentation and correspondence related to the magazine, including a set of readers’ letters sent from prison.
In 1994, García-Alix promoted the creation of a racing team, the Pura Vida Team, with which he competed in the Campeonato de España de velocidad (Spanish Speed Championship) in the 1994 and 1995 seasons. Photographs, originals, documents, ephemeral material and a racing suit are preserved from this project.