Immersive art: museum-goers in bikinis dive into Cezanne

Visitors to a Paul Cezanne exhibition in Switzerland were invited to wear their swimwear as part of an initiative conceived by renowned Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan

A Swiss museum made a splash on Friday by inviting in the public in their swimwear to enjoy Paul Cezanne’s iconic paintings of people bathing.

At the Fondation Beyeler outside Basel, a young woman in a black swimsuit with a towel draped over her shoulder sat gazing at one artwork, while to her right a shirtless man in orange trunks perused the brush strokes.

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