Publications

2024
On Modernities
Mark Louie L. Lugue and Emerald F. Manlapaz. 3/2024. “On Modernities.” Art Studies Journal, 3, 1, Pp. 8-13. Published Version
2023
Child's Play: Articulating Freedom in Lucell Larawan's Practice
Mark Louie L. Lugue. 2023. “Child's Play: Articulating Freedom in Lucell Larawan's Practice.” In Transforming Painting into Stringed Metaphors: Lucell Larawan. Manila: National Commission for Culture and the Arts.
Intertwining Heritage and Ecology in the Art of Maria Gabrielle Jestre Tuazon
Mark Louie L. Lugue. 2023. “Intertwining Heritage and Ecology in the Art of Maria Gabrielle Jestre Tuazon.” In Repurposing the Future: Maria Gabrielle Jestre Tuazon. Manila: National Commission for Culture and the Arts.
2022
Nuestra Señora de la Consolacion y Correa
Mark Louie L. Lugue. 2022. “Nuestra Señora de la Consolacion y Correa.” In Faces of Faith: Treasures of the Santiago Apostol Parish, Betis, Guagua, Pampanga. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Diliman Department of Art Studies.
Stations of the Cross
Mark Louie L. Lugue. 2022. “Stations of the Cross.” In Faces of Faith: Treasures of the Santiago Apostol Parish, Betis, Guagua, Pampanga. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Diliman Department of Art Studies.
Painting a "Continuing Modern": Exploring Practices of Abstraction within Modernity during the 1970s in the Philippines

Treading a formulated continuing modern framework, the study seeks to reanimate the discourse on abstraction in the field of painting in the country during the 1970s, by exploring its persistence through its continuous relationship with modernity—including how it is particularly conceived in postcolonial terms through the matrix of the nation. It attempts to surface other narratives on the stream of artistic practices, whose influential literature dominantly, but also necessarily, portrayed it in relation to the cooptation of the State. From this set of literature, a good number understandably dwell on the elusive concept of national identity, and frequently examine the art object or collectively through the oeuvre in the process. The study speculates on the potential of provisionally minimizing these tendencies as lenses in historicizing abstraction, and instead, invites an alternative entry point in examining it: as ‘practices’ that respond to and negotiate with the modernity of its time, with its various manifestations including the notion of nation, gleaned in the lens of geopolitics. The study considers the abstraction performed by Marciano Galang (b. 1945, d. 2001) prior the 1970s to furnish historical breadth to the framework; and those by Lao Lianben (b. 1948) and Glenn Bautista (b. 1947, d. 2014) during the focal decade of study. Writing on these practices, it doubles as an attempt to further make sense of how abstraction coexisted with the slippery concept of the contemporary, revisiting the latter’s critiques against the former, most especially abstraction’s supposed exhaustion.

2021
Updates on "Art Education and Academe," "Art Scholarship," "Collection and Archives," "Patronage," "Art Market," and "Awards"
Mark Louie L. Lugue. 2021. “Updates on "Art Education and Academe," "Art Scholarship," "Collection and Archives," "Patronage," "Art Market," and "Awards".” In Cultural Center of the Philippines Encyclopedia of Philippine Art. Vol. 2. Manila: Cultural Center of the Philippines. Publisher's Version
Updates on "Maramag, Ben," "Mutuc, Eduardo," "Nuyda, Justin," "Pilapil, Imelda," "Samonte, Rodolfo," "Vinluan, Nestor," "Yu, MM," and "Zaballero, Phyllis"
Mark Louie L. Lugue. 2021. “Updates on "Maramag, Ben," "Mutuc, Eduardo," "Nuyda, Justin," "Pilapil, Imelda," "Samonte, Rodolfo," "Vinluan, Nestor," "Yu, MM," and "Zaballero, Phyllis".” In Cultural Center of the Philippines Encyclopedia of Philippine Art. Vol. 2. Manila: Cultural Center of the Philippines. Publisher's Version
Updates on "Avellana-Cosio, Ivi," "Carating, Norberto," "Cosio, Allan," "Farol, Noel El," "Fernandez, Edgar," "Rodolfo, Gan," "Gelvezon-Tequi, Ofelia," "Lamarroza, Prudencio," "Lao, Lianben," "Layug, Wilfredo," "Lee, Ileana," and "Liongoren, Alfredo"
2020
Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center – The Philately Collection
Mark Louie L. Lugue. 2020. “Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center – The Philately Collection.” In Adhika: Vision & Legacy – The University of the Philippines Diliman Collections. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Diliman Office for Initiatives in Culture and the Arts.
UP Diliman North Sector
Mark Louie L. Lugue. 2020. “UP Diliman North Sector.” In Adhika: Vision & Legacy – The University of the Philippines Diliman Collections. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Diliman Office for Initiatives in Culture and the Arts.
Beyond the Object: A Different Look at Zachary Alcoseba’s Artistic Practice
Mark Louie L. Lugue. 2020. “Beyond the Object: A Different Look at Zachary Alcoseba’s Artistic Practice.” In Stories from the River: The Driftwood Art of Zachary Alcoseba. Manila: National Commission for Culture and the Arts.
2019
National Artist Federico Aguilar Alcuaz: His Grammar of Modernism
Mark Louie L. Lugue. 2019. “National Artist Federico Aguilar Alcuaz: His Grammar of Modernism.” In Federico Aguilar Alcuaz: National Artist . Manila: National Commission for Culture and the Arts. Abstract
Gathering several of National Artist Federico Aguilar Alcuaz’s works from the late 1950s to the 1980s, the exhibition reveals a glimpse to the general contours and the evolution of the artist’s style, as he explored different subject matter and media both here and abroad. Specifically looking into his artistic practice presses the questions as to what it means to be a global artist, and how it intersects with his grammar of modernism. The essay attempts to respond to these questions through its effort to reap out themes that surface from the artist’s works in the exhibition.
Shrouded by Darkness: Obscurity as Nexus, Retrospective as Apparatus
Mark Louie L. Lugue. 2019. “Shrouded by Darkness: Obscurity as Nexus, Retrospective as Apparatus.” In Writing Presently. Quezon City: Philippine Contemporary Art Network and Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center. Publisher's Version Abstract
Mobilizing the concepts of aenigma and nostalgia, the analyses of Gelvezon-Téqui’s printmaking practice and retrospective exhibition in 2020, respectively, enabled the openness to the potentials of obscurity in relaying contesting and complicating discourses on how phenomena in sociality, particularly patronage and resistance, are dominantly understood.
2017
Reimagining the Retablo
Mark Louie L. Lugue. 2017. “Reimagining the Retablo.” In Retablo 2.0 - Wilfredo Offemaria. Manila: National Commission for Culture and the Arts.