How broad is Contact’s reach across the GTA? Broad enough that festival exhibitions find themselves in high-security zones like Pearson International’s domestic departures plaza, on the other side of the x-rays and metal detectors. In truth, a trove of permanent art on the other side of the screen has long made Terminal One one of the better museums in town — it’s the home of our city’s one-and-only Richard Serra — and this year marks the fifth time Contact has installed at Pearson. As ever, it’s a good one: A series of pictures by Josef Schulz capture the mundanity of workaday temporary architecture — all corrugated metal and right angles — in an array of dazzling colour. That tension between prosaic and exuberant gives a strong dose of visual pop, but in proportion and colour massing, Schulz’s precise compositions evoke colour something else entirely: Late-era abstract colour field painting. At Pearson’s Terminal One, domestic departures, until Aug. 29.
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