The virtual exhibition of cartoons was recently inaugurated, digital illustrations and videos by Alfredo Sabat at the Roberto Fontanarrosa Cultural Center in Rosario.

This exhibition is organized by the Museum of Graphic Illustration of Buenos Aires (ME) and understand images, texts and audiovisual production arranged by Hugo Maradei, Gonzalo Cadenas and Nicolás de Brun, under the curatorship of Sábat himself.

Under the title "Fingerprints", all the images that make up this sample were made in digital format, through a computer.

In these times, the computer is another tool for drawing or painting, whose result is a digital file. This is because nowadays any graphic work that is done to be published, sooner or later it will be converted to digital format.

Zeros and ones. Electrical pulses that will be transmitted so that a printing press turns them back into something tactile when staining a paper with ink, or that they will never cease to be pulses by staying in the virtual world of the Internet.

Then it is up to the author to decide at what stage of the process that work will become electrical pulses., if originally done on paper and then scanned, if the image is made entirely on the computer or if it is a hybrid process, mixing a scanned paper with computer colored.

Either way, today all illustration passes through that virtual world, and sometimes, never physically exists as seen on paper or a screen. What before we could call an "original", something that can be touched, is framed or treasured, maybe it doesn't exist.

But nevertheless, traces of that work remain in the reactions it causes. Se and, Its enjoyable, there are positive or negative reactions. Provoke an emotion. And that emotion that they create, whether of acceptance or rejection, is still as real and as virtual as before, because emotions cannot be touched either.

Emotions are also electrical pulses that move within us. So everything changes, and nothing changes. We enter a digital world in which we have always been.