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For details, contact 66523871/ During this time, all therapists and Mamangam is an art and performance 31326749. Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Tuesday, July 30, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Piece of history No-one seemed to know who had painted the scene adorning the Coliseum’s main archway — or when. Guides referred to it as a “mystery mural,” the story of its origins as shrouded by time as the artwork itself. Until a student, then only 17, began his quest I basically contacted every single person who might have an idea, every archivist, historian or professor who might have some connection to the ‘mural — Dean Gordon, student, 19 archives, hoping to fi nd a clue that By Colleen Shalby would lead him to the artist. “I basically contacted every single person who might have an or decades, the curving idea,” he said, “every archivist, mural depicting a golden historian or professor who might sun has greeted visitors have some connection to the to the Los Angeles mural,” rumoured to have been Memorial Coliseum. painted before the Coliseum hosted FFaded by the elements, its once- the 1932 Olympics. vibrant blue lost some lustre over After a series of dead ends, the years. The gold-leaf paint had Gordon found a clue in the form chipped away. Still, the image drew of a Los Angeles Central’ Library eyes upward. notecard that read “H. Rosien No-one seemed to know who Coliseum.” had painted the scene adorning Further online digging produced the Coliseum’s main archway — or nothing — until he came across a when. Guides referred to it as a single tweet: “mystery mural,” the story of its “Please don’t touch the mural origins as shrouded by time as the inside the arch that my FIL artwork itself. Heinz Rosien painted prior to the But after taking a tour of the Olympics!!” historic stadium a few years The plea, posted in 2016, was ago, one local teenager became from Mary Lou Rosien in response engrossed with its history. to the Coliseum’s announcement Dean Gordon estimates he’s that parts of the stadium were been to the Coliseum more than being overhauled. The mural would 100 times. But before that day, be part of renovations, which he’d never given much thought to eventually totalled $315 million, the mural high above the peristyle by the University of Southern entrance. Two golden Olympic California. The university operates torches fl anking a fl aming sun, its and manages the Coliseum. centre a depiction of the planet Years before, during a broadcast Earth and the 12 signs of the Zodiac. of a Trojans football game, the Solving its mystery soon became camera had panned under the his mission. Coliseum’s archway and focused on Two summers ago, at age 17, the mural. ENTRANCE: A mural beneath the peristyle at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was recenly restored to its former Gordon began his quest — poring Watching from his home in glory. It was painted by Heinz and Igor Rosien in 1969. through library books and searching upstate New York, Rosien’s Tuesday, July 30, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY husband, Igor, was fl ooded with emotion. He and his father, Heinz Rosien, had worked on the mural together. The Los Angeles Coliseum Commission tasked the elder Rosien with the job in 1969, in hopes of helping the city win a bid for the 1976 Olympics. Heinz Rosien, a German immigrant, was a well-known artist in Alhambra and had painted works at various schools, banks and theatres — including the Ahmanson in downtown LA’s Music Center.