Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper.
Tyron Selmon may be the only art merchant in South Africa who’s not in the business of selling art.
“We don’t sell pictures, we don’t sell paintings, we don’t sell sculptures – we market artists,” Selmon told
DM168 in a two-hour interview in his office at the Art Eye Gallery in Fourways, Johannesburg. “We put millions of rands behind our artists’ careers.”
Until a flood of allegations appeared on social media sites recently, artists affiliated with Art Eye say it was impossible to know why they weren’t seeing the results of those millions reflected in their bank accounts.