Hitoshi Nakazato (1936 - 2010) approaches painting as a practice grounded in measure, recurrence, and equivalence. Each gesture carries weight, entering into a precise relation with material and surface. Actions are calibrated rather than expressive, allowing meaning to arise through rhythm, consistency, and exactitude.

Across his work, painting functions as a register of action. Lines, geometric forms, and repeated configurations appear as discrete units, each corresponding to a measured act within a larger system. Accumulation does not produce progression, but coexistence. Multiple moments are gathered and held together through internal order and continuity.

Repetition is central to this logic. Horizontal lines, triangular arrangements, and modular structures return persistently, preserving equivalence while allowing subtle variation. What becomes visible is the extension of a single act across the surface, and the attentiveness required to maintain coherence from one gesture to the next. A condition of presence unfolds across the pictorial plane.