This article offers a critical reading of the first major attempt to publicly come to terms with the presence of an invasive and ideologically charged fascist monument in the border town of Bolzano-Bozen, in South Tyrol, Italy. The ‘Monument to Victory’, commissioned by Mussolini and inaugurated in 1928 to celebrate the annexation of the province after WWI, is the symbolic centre of a discourse that divides the town along an ethno-linguistic axis. To this day, this creates ongoing political tensions, fostering extreme views in both Italian and German speaking communities. To neutralise this symbolic power while preserving its supposed artistic value, a permanent exhibition inaugurated in 2014 inside the artefact tries to offer an historical explanation and contextualisation, and foster a new, inclusive and democratic discourse around the past. This article discusses this exhibition as a counter-monument, which directly challenges the ideology of the original. In interpreting the scientific aims and choices of the historians involved, and the architectural and curatorial strategies, it questions their dialogical underpinning discourse. The results lay bare an agenda to establish the site as a new monologic myth of origin for the democratic town of the future; one that aims at producing a ‘democratic and reconciled’ citizen through a prescriptive perlocutionary experience.

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一个纪念碑，一个城镇，两种意识形态：博尔扎诺·博岑胜利纪念碑

本文提供了批判性的解读，它是在意大利南蒂罗尔边境城镇博尔扎诺-博岑（Bolzano-Bozen）出现侵略性和意识形态化的法西斯主义纪念碑时首次公开尝试达成的重大尝试。由墨索里尼（Mussolini）委托成立的“胜利纪念碑”，于1928年为庆祝该省在第一次世界大战后的兼并而成立，是沿着民族语言轴线划分该镇的话语的象征性中心。时至今日，这造成了持续的政治紧张局势，在意大利语和德语社区中形成了极端的看法。为了在保留其象征性艺术价值的同时中和这种象征性力量，2014年在该艺术品内部开设了一个永久性展览，试图提供历史解释和语境化，并在过去培育一种新的，包容性的民主话语。本文将本次展览作为对位来讨论，这直接挑战了原著的意识形态。在解释所涉及的历史学家的科学目的和选择以及建筑和策展策略时，它质疑他们对话的话语基础。结果几乎没有一个议程，就是要将该场所确立为未来民主小镇的新的单一神话起源。其目的是通过规定性的言语体验来培养“民主与和解”的公民。结果几乎没有一个议程，就是要将该场所确立为未来民主小镇的新的单一神话起源。旨在通过规定性的言语性经历来培养“民主与和解”的公民。结果几乎没有一个议程，就是要将该场所确立为未来民主小镇的新的单一神话起源。其目的是通过规定性的言语体验来培养“民主与和解”的公民。