Beneath a hazy moon, a party is in full swing at a mountainside terrace overlooking the endless twinkling lights of a city that may or may not be Los Angeles.
Barbecues are glowing, music is playing and bottles are emptying. But revelers are not clad in their usual hip attire: Instead, they have been transformed into languorously lounging devils, complete with naked red bodies, horned heads and masked faces.
This scenario of modern-day hedonism is captured in dense detail in a painting by New York-based artist Jules de Balincourt, whose exhibition recently opened at Tokyo's Mori Art Museum in Roppongi.
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